TV LEGEND Sir Bruce Forsyth was raking in a fortune to his last breath, accounts revealed yesterday. The game show giant died in August 2017, aged 89, but his production company’s accounts show that for the 12 months to October last year he had built up £5.56million in cash.

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I think your inheritance should go to your children more than back to the country that you’ve lived in

Sir Bruce Forsyth

Wilnelia, a former Miss World who Bruce married in 1983, was then free to give away £650,000 without paying extra in tax.

Bruce, who hosted Strictly Come Dancing, The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, The Price Is Right and Sunday Night At The London Palladium during a 75-year television career, had spoken out against inheritance tax two years before his death.

He told Radio Times: “I think your inheritance should go to your children more than back to the country that you’ve lived in.

“I’m not saying you don’t owe the country something. Of course you owe your country a lot for living there all those years.

Sir Bruce Forsyth has spoken out against inheritance tax in the past (Image: BBC)

“But I think it can be a bit over the top.’’

Probate records show Bruce left £100,000 in trust to be split between his nine grandchildren when they reach the age of 21 and £20,000 each to two executors of his estate.

Everything else in his £11,718,242 estate, after funeral and legal expenses, went to Wilnelia, 60.

That included the family home in Surrey and two properties in her native Puerto Rico.

A spokesman for his estate said previously: “All I would say is that I think 99.9 per cent of married people would do this.’’